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V — THE ATLANTA GEORGI AN AND NEWS. iTEDXESDAY, MARCH ». 1191 TIE ATLANTA SBOKSIAN (AND NEWS) JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor. F. L. SEELT, President. PaMIshtd Ivory Afternoon (Exc.pt Sunday) By THI atOROIAN COMPANY. At * WmI Alabama St. Allesta. Oa. Subscription Rates OiorgU. PH fif n ntflrm frtMfll 'MS® 3 It la deelreM. tbet oil eoeraaate*; jaaSrcND N twWwS EO word a la Wsgtb. » '• iSKSJ'I# KQPT UP ■ 11U “J. ■■ waa ^.. ( .n.l^oa.oacrtpu wld ■ HO. “T" .. '-.-a rataraad aalraa stamps ara aaat for tha parpoaa. THE OEOROUN AtW JJB*J wa.? »-r ssJiwaaS; ar an; liquor ada OUR PLATFORM—Tba Oaorftao aad Nava auada tar Attaata'a owatac liianiaiiBd riectrie Urtt plaits, aa Itoow owos Ita waterworks. Other rlllet do tMa andxst «aa ati low aa10 roata. with a prodl «o the city. This ObjaMU^ dao. at.aoaa Ttodaorxlan araya ran I no rood taaaoo why they ran oot ba ao SmmM btra. Bat ara do oot baUrra tSlrSS badooa D<rw. ami It mar be 7ran before wr arr rrady for aa NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS. Ota February -2 Tha Gstrglan pur- ohaaad tha nama, good will, franchises, advortlalng contracts and aubacrlptlon Hat of Tha Atlanta Now* and Tha Nawa -la now publlahad aa a part of Tha Soar. ■Ian. All advortlalng undar contract to appaar in Tha Nawa will ba prlntad In Tha Qaarglan and Nawa, without Inter, ruptlan, axeopt aueh aa la dabarrad by Tha Oaorglan’a aatabllahad polity to axtluda all abjaetlonablo advortlalng. I hill America Only Furnish Ms- tsrisl for English Spinners? The New York Commercial aaya that “while It la etUI true that ‘cotton it kins' her* In the United State*, the cotton manufacturing Induatry la a tons. Ions way from the throne and la not approehlng It at an encouraging In all things except the manufacture of goods from cotton, the only com modity on which the United Btatei ha* an absolute monopoly, the American business man la holdlife Ms own, and Is aucceasfully competing with Eng land In the markets of the world. la It a fact that the apinnera of the United States are aattalled If they can only aupply a greater portion of the home demand for cotton good*, or are they willing to admit that they are leas shrewd than the English spin ners T Whatever the cause It begins to look aa If they have given up the field, aad the Lancashire aptnner Is reaping • rich barveat aa a result. The Lan castrians apparently do not, fear the American spinner, and are preparing for even a much greater business, as is shown by the enormous amount of •spite) they are putting Into new mill* and adding to the old one*. ' They study the wants of the people both at home and abroad and push their Bonds. Our mill men. on the other hand, teem content If they know the wants of the people at home and ap pear Indifferent to the dais of goods that can and should be manufactured for other countries than America. Consequently they are distanced In the race for business even in Cuba and the Philippines. England exports more cotton menu- tact urea than the total output of the American mills, aa shown by the fol lowing table, recently Issued by the eensus bureau (or 1*05:, Tarda •j*WiMo> i.WP.SIS.fcw Orsy noth (Userbed rloth Prilled doth.. Dyad cloth.... Value. lins.Ma.3H DM *40 ti.iM.rai u.tc.:in War. maasfactoraa. I344.iai.s3a 10.14a, in 3LS34.R0 noted total 34tr.in.iar The total output of the American asllls during ISOS was valued at |4&0,. 4(7,703. “only $3,704,317 In excess of tha total vain* of the Rritlsh exports of cotton manufactures for that year— a most humiliating showing for the JjMriaan milts." adds The Commcr *1*1. Tbs Increase la the value of cotton goods exported In 1*00 was $33,000,- 000 over the total output of the Amer ican mills In 1905. America furnishes the world with the bulk of the raw material while England furnishes tha bulk of manu factured goods, paying the coat to and from har mills, and tha spinning Indus try It reported as being In a most Boa risking condition. The American mills are paying sat- teafetory dividend* on their horn* bus iness and that they ar* not "money IMP la Rwes by tha- IndIVer*nee and neglect shown by our spinners In M earn paring with England In the foreign markets for the tale of Amer These tacts point the way to tome a wholesome aad necessary enterprise liar tha tutor* “MISTAKE NUMBER SEVEN.” Our esteemed contemporary of The Journal being human Is also fal lible. and measured by Its fallibility w* ara willing to coaead* that It Is essentially human. Our contemporary baa made many mistake* aloe* It amerced from the recent state campaign In the presUga of Its own rigorous advocacy, and In the greater and reflected glory of the all-conquering candidate for whom it stood. ft Is not our design to go backward over the pathway of the months to revive errors which bav* perhaps bean forgotten and which It la cer tainly none of our business to recall. , We rise now meekly In our place to suggest that our eontemporsry has made a very serious and lamentable mistake In Its assault of Tuesday evening upon the Integrity and loyalty of the Chamber of Commerce. Not to speak of tha very apparent discourtesy to some distinguish ed gentlemen who. however much we may differ with them, war* for the time being the guests of the city and at least men of reputable stand ing In the world. It appears a most serious and unwarranted reflection upon that eminently conservative and honorable body, the Chamber of Commerce, to assert or even to Infer that Its political morals bad been cor rupted and that It had surrendered to the- railroads aad compromised Its consistency In political economics. The'nature and terms of this assault are calculated to cripple the usefulness of the Chamber, and to Injure permanently and deeply the *f- foctlveneas of the most useful and representative body of our municipal life. In the opinion of The Georgian, the Chamber of Commerce, which does ao many things, baa rarely don* a batter or wiser thing than In lorillng the moat Important railway magnate of the South to discuss with the business men of Atlanta tha most Imminent and transcendent problem of our times. Thera was not the slightest basis for the Inference that In extend ing this Invitation the Chamber of Commerce was committed cither for ward or backward to an Indorsement of Ur. /Inlay's views any more than It would be a legitimate Inference to credit the Chamber of Commerce with Republican politics If it should Inrite Senator Beveridge or Secretary Shaw to addreas one of Ita annual meetings. The railroad question Is the all-absorbing topic of the economic hour. There ara some things that era know about It and there are many things that we do not know, and there Is no batter way to know aod to understand any question than to bear both sides of it discussed by those who are beat able to furnish Information and to It vs alike both the facte which surround It and the policies which move IL Measured by this practical proposition, this annual entertainment of the Chamber of Commerce was as timely and aa educative as any which that great and honorable body haa celebrated In recent years. The great curse of our Bouthern politics has been the one-sided dis cussions upon which our Intelligent and patriotic electorate have been forced to make up their opinions and to cast their ballots. The Georgian has always argued that In periods of personal or economic crise* a great public which Is at last a mighty jury was entitled to hear both the argu ment for the proaecutlon and the argument for the defense—the plea of the state and the plea of the accused—before a verdict could be tendered that was In accordance with justice and with wisdom. It was npon this basis that In the lest campaign The Georgian urged that President Spen cer and President Hanson and Counselor Baxter should give the railroad side of the question In the great centers of Georgia, while our distinguished governor was prosecuting his magnificent campaign In opposition to their policies throughout the state. The Journal had not the slightest foundation for Impeaching or Im pugning the Integrity aod fairnesa of the Chamber of Commerce upon the Incident of President Finley's Invitation to address that body. Our es teemed contemporary seems to have reached the point of frensy upon this question, that It actually “sees things at nights,” and bnUds up a bugaboo which Is purely a figment of the Imagination. If The Journal would con fide tp the public the name of the Informant upon whose authority It Inti mated that the Chamber of Commerce had been captured by tie rail roads and that resolutions would be Introduced Indorsing Mr. Finlay and his policies, there would be a better and larger foundation for the very ungracious attack of Tuesday afternoon. 8o far as we have been able to discover It was not In the mind or In the purpose of a single Individual or that chamber to latrodnoe such resolutions or to esprass In any way any opinion on the part of the chamber touching Mr. Finley and the poll- dee of the Southern railway. It was from first to last an educative con ference between a great and offlolal representative of the mighty trans portation Interests of the South, aad tha great body of strong, dear-headed business men whose Interests and prosperity were touched by this great Interest And this conference came at a Urns when the problem was In such acute stage and when oertaln great change* were In process between the transportation lines and tha publlo, that perhaps In all America at this particular, jime the Chamber of Commerce could hare presented no topic so thoroughly and ritelly Interesting and no speaker so prominent and offi cially representative. The Chamber of Commerce heard Mr. Finley gladly; It heard him with perfect respect and with tha perfect courtesy due from a courteous people to a distinguished gentleman and official. There waa no single In cident which committed the Chamber of Commerce In any way to an In dorsement of Mr. Finley'* policies. Although for our oem part we do not hesitate to say that tha nature and spirit of bis message must have com mended Itself at least to the respect and consideration of the eminently In telligent and representative men who listened to him. We credit The Atlanta Journal with honesty and Integrity of opinion In Its attitude toward tha railroads. W* have no desire to reflect In any degree npon Its motives or sincerity, but ere cannot fall to regret that so able and ao representative a newspaper ahonld ao tar forget Itself at to have levied without provocation, and at hat been demonstrated, without auy foundation, a wholesale and Injurious reflection upon the political and commercial loyalty of the whole representative business body of Atlan ta's Ilf*. We do not know the attitude of our esteemed contemporary upon the general question of apologies, hut we take the liberty to suggest that If It believes In verbal reparation, there was never a time In Ita history when an apology would be more appropriate than In this Instance. THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE INDESTRUCTIBLE. Everybody In Georgia la glad that The Augusta Chronic!* will rise I'hoenlx-llke from Its ashes. The Chronicle Is the nestor of journalism In Georgia. Its history of service Is a part of the history of the state. Its files ar* eloquent vrith the tones which have helped to build public opinion for n hundred year*. Its roster of editors Includes names that are never-to-be-forgotten In Georgia. It haa always been a good paper—never better than now under Its brilliant and forceful editor. COLLIER'S AND GENERAL LEE. Colllcr'a Weekly In alternate Interval! of catholic patriotism and of speculative provincialism, pleas** and Irritates the South. We think In the main that Mr. Hapgood means to b* fair, hut Ilka too many of his contemporaries of Immediate environment he projects his philanthropy upon the basis of a thousand mile* of prospective, and gets our Southern problems and our Bouthern motives all awry. Rut upon things which Collier's Weekly understands. It Is nearly al ways sane and wholesome and strong, and we have to thank It In this conneetlon for a very teree but effectlvtetribute to Robert K. Lee in answer to tome very narrow and foolish criticisms mad* by lb* “Department Pa triotic Instructor of the Grand Army of the Republic,” who lives In Oaks- looaa, lows, and thinks that Collier's did wrong to prala* tha Confederate hero. And. with fine spirit Colliers' declares that Lee acted always from ths noble** of motives, snd that It Is too 1st* tor any part of our country to attempt to undervalue him. While we always feel kindly to ths public voices which speak for ths best beloved of all our Southern men, wa scarcely feel that General Lee any longer needa defense or eulogy. He Is securely fixed In the common judgment of the whole country aa one of the first Americans, tad In the enduring Judgment of the South aa the finest and moat perfect man that has lived within these nineteen hundred years. Time will only deepen Ibis Just snd righteous estimate and no “de partment Instructor'' of any organisation, martial or civic, will find It In his power to pluck one leaf from hte fadeless laurels or to dim oa* ater la his radiant crow* WHAT OF THE RAILROAD FUTURE? The speech of President Finley before tbe Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening was vary much In lin* with tb* pacific and conciliatory utterances which b* has made In other cities at othej times since be as sumed the executive direction of ibe great railway system of the South. Wa have from time to time commended the spirit and temper of these remarks, and wa taka great pleasure In renewing the commendation at this time. , It Is a little late perhaps, but It te very proper that the railroads should awaken to the necessity of due consideration for the shipper and the traveler and the public generally, and we believe that Mr. Finley, whose executive responsibility does not go back to the period of Indiffer ence and neglect, te thoroughly sincere In the outline of a policy which )« at least promising for tbe future. We are thoroughly convinced that the president of the Southern te doing good In the main by tbe aplrit and temper of hte utterances, and that (be very rude asperities between the railroads and tb* public are being softened by the speeches he has W* realise folly that tbe disadvantage under which Mr. Finley labors . te In tha fact that tha American public te very fully and very decidedly aroused over the past Indifference and Injustice of the railroads, that they have learned to be suspicions of railroad deliverances,' and that perhaps they carry to tbe point of Injustice the apprehension that railroad official* are not always sincere In their professions that they make. This senti ment atlll exists aa a barrier to the complete acceptance of Mr. Finley’s wise and sincere tssurances which will doubtless never be taken at tbalr full vain* until the railroads have given some practical and commercial evidence of their change of heart. The two points auound which Mr. Finley’s speech revolves was the plea Implied and expressed for greater consideration, patience and en couragement for the railroads, and the protest against any legal reduc tion of tha rates, either of travel or'of freight Both of these pleas may perhaps be met In tha general statement that the public Is neither unjust nor unreasonable. Tbe people realise the vast service which tb* railroads have done for the country In the past and the Indispensable necessity of railroads to their prosperity and devel opment In the future. The people In general we believe to be thorough ly willing that the railroads should prosper, that they should make a liv ing, and that they should pay a dividend upon their Investments. But the people are not now and never again will be willing that the railroads should earn large dividends upon a valuation which te unjust and Inac curate In Ita estimate of the amount of money which their owners and stockholders have Invested In these properties. In-other words, -the peo ple, however Just or unjust, are not willing that the railroads should pay dividends upon heavily watered stock. Mr. Finley stated on last evening that the values of the railroad prop erties In thly country were In the neighborhood of sixteen thousand mil lion dollar*, and If this be true neither Mr. Finley nor other experts In these lines will for a moment deny that at least eight and perhaps nine thousand million dollars of thla estimate represent watered stock. Here, then, Is the point of difference between the railroads and the people, a difference whlob we are sorry that Mr. Finley did not touch upon and for which wc regret be offence between the railroads and the future. 1 If the railroads themselves cannot make a proper estimate of the real valuation of their atock or the real amount of money that has been Invested In the properties, then the government through Hi commission should promptly make this valuation upon fair and equitable lines and the people should understand In exact figures Just upon wbat sum the railroad te antitied to earn dividends, and by regulation restrict Its earnings to thst bssls. The Florida supreme court his recently decided that the railroads have no right to earn dividends of any kind until they have equipped their lines of transportation with the facilities to meet tbe public demand In transportation and In freight capacity, and this poaltlon seems to be sound even If It appear to the railroads to be harsh and unjust. The one thing that te too often forgotten 1a that In all these esti mates of ownership, the people are unjustly left out. For tho people tn themselves by reason of their magnificent and lavish gift of the franchises upon which the railroads are run are. In every sense of tho word, partners In the enterprise and are to be respected and considered accordingly. In the matter of reducing the rates of transportation, we are con fronted with two facts. First, that the reduction of transportation has always been fought by the railway lines upon the basis that they could not live upon a smaller rate of fares. This was notably true when the passenger rate eras legally reduced to 3 cents a mile. It was claimed then by tha railroads that they would be run Into bankruptcy by this en actment, yet we have seen since then that railroad patronage has In creased and railroad earning* have been multiplied to a fabulous degree. Tbe railroads are fighting now tho reduction of the passenger rate un der the same plea, and even while we pause to remember ths (vindication of the popular will In that first Instance, we recall thst at tbls particular time the volume of freight and of transportation te multiplied a thou sand fold and ought to furnish an even better and more plausible answer to tbe railroad apprehension than it did when their fares were first brought down to 3 cents. Fortunately for this question there are some ten or eleven slates which have already reduced the passenger rate on railroads, and we shall have an opportunity at an early date to observe the effect of this reduction upon the revenues of the transportation lines and can better see whether It works an ln^usl'pe amounting to serious Injury. Behind the whole question looms tbe fact that we see no Immediate remedy for the situation and no promise of an early amergtng from the dlstreasful and appalling condltloni of Irregularity and Inadequacy which envelops tho railroad situation at the present time. To The Ocorglan the moat significant thing In the ipeech of Mr. Fin ley was the fact that so great and so practical a railroad man as he Is. and speaking with such evident sincerity aa he did, that ho failed to show us Just where we were to come out of this situation with what the peoplo demanded both In equipment and In treatment from toe roads. In this view of the question and In the outlook which te before us. thoughtful men everywhere are beginning with much greater Interest to as* themselves the question whether the railroads under the present man agement are capable of remedying tho extraordinary tangle Into which they Jtave wound themselves, it 1s a question whether anything lets than the atrong hand of the government cat unwind this tangled skein of present conditions, and certainly the railroads themselves have done more to pop ularise and practlcallze the theory of government ownership than any evangel who has yet spoken upon that question. The people are no longer alarmed by the bugbear of “graft" and the threat of a great "political machine" growing out of government owner ahlp. Certainly the government whose other departments have been so honestly conducted could not Indulge any greater graft than that which has been written In watered stocks, and the absence of great political ma chines In other departments of the government In this enlightened day goes far toward giving a negative to this other apprehension. Under ordinary circumstances things move slowly and great theories grow by slow degrees.' But things are moving with amatlng rapidity at this time. Conditions and situations which were more than we could have forecasted or hoped for six months ago are changing most mightily the aspect of affair* both In the railroad question and In the race question. And this much at least may be laid: That never before has the prop osition of government ownership of railroads loomed so probable or ap peared so desirable aa It 1s at the present time. Army-Navy Orders MOVEMENT OF VESSELS. Army Ordart. Wathtaftna. March K*Ha ialltarlBg 5F tfrra hav# brea laaard: RRemit rbarlea flrhaffaer. Infantry re- rmlt depot. Fort Riorum. transferred m prlvaU to foaftpan) t\ bnapltal r«rj»*; m •ml ImcpItaU Washington Harrarka Prlrat* Frederick R. powers. Naval Ordara. gunner A. C. tUrlnlmnner, to naval yard, * Warrant Maehlnlat O. A. Currie, placed on retired Hat. Movements of Vassals. ARItlVKir-Marrh 1*. I^ul.i.ua at llamp '"5 Jtf&S! NsreklS.Oilvv.lTO. at Tlcetsta. i.WUJi.esiiSSaLk. •""I'klq. from Ha van* Tt>r Guantanamo. of tbe railed Btatea. Private William Bmwcr. CotBt>niir K. Fourth Infantry. Fart Thnmaa, tranafrrreNt vlre. Infantry, to Port w.ittn • ate (laylTO 3\ William.. I-i«iii>iih rorrtlt roswil. rvrroH Avpol. J.ffvlvuu barracks, durhsrged frost Urn tray. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. The worn* thing about honeaty la tbe way yon can t get rich by It It nover tuakra a girl tim| to dance till lt*t fo grt np th** nett day. Tbe mean* iV* men Tivc run advice on bn* to do It la*lMt aura* It Isn't tbe real W Vkv. a * really r«.l dlspori In these days of rapidly fluctuating values of many stocks and bonds, is it not wiser and more conservative to have your money drawing Pour Per Cent Interest Compounded, in the MADD0X RU0KER BANKING COMPANY, with a Capital and Surplus of more than $700,000.00, where you can draw it any day if you need the cash? EX-GOV. N0RTHEN DEFENDS HIMSELF AND HIS WORK FROM AN UNFAIR ASSAULT To the Editor of The Georgian: My attention haa Juki been called to an editorial In Sunday'* Issue of Ths Atlanta Journal. I spoke boro this morning In the court bout* to a mag nificent audience of eplendld men on “Criminal AoaaulU" upon women, and the savagery of murderous mobs, as ths danger element* In our civilisa tion. ' The audience unanimously in dorsed, to a man, every word I said. Half my speech hers and at every place I speak. Is given to asking the people to tell me how we ran heap out rage and Infamy from the fair woman of the state, aa perpetrated by brutish negroes and ths other half denounces, with all th* (rawer I can command, tbe member* of moba, aa aavag*s destroy ing'the civilisation for which our fa thom died. This Is all and nothing more. After I had finished my epeech. Mr. Cobb, evidently a roost excellent young man, resident here and the correspond ent for The Atlanta Journal, came to me to aek If I had seen an editorial In The Journal attacking the work 1 am doing. 1 told him I had not. He said he would go for a copy, that I might read It. I read tpe editorial aloud In the pret ence of a company of gentlemen who were standing around me and when I finished, In hoi wrath and righteous In dignation 1 pronounced certain state ment! therein absolutely and slander ously false. Now, In my cooler mo ments I repeat the statement, “they are absolutely and slanderously false.' I asked Mr. Cobb If he had heard my speech. He said he went out specially to hear It and he heard every word I said. 1 asked him If I said anything thst could subject me to the criticism made upon me In the editorial I bad just read In the presence of the gentle; men about me. He replied. “Ton hu did not say any such words.” H* then ex pressed-surprise that the editor of The Journal and I did not understand each other. 1 told him the editor of The Journal and I fully underatood each other. I said to him I had written two personal letters to the editor of The Journal, without his solicitation, that I might have him fully understand what I waa doing. He seemed not to under stand, because he would not publish any matter In his paper that I sent to him for publication. To neither of these letters haa he ever made reply. I explained In the edjlor what I was do ing and what I was not doing. He has copies of all the literature I distribute. If he now says he did not understand, hit statement will be meanly falee. Air. Cobb asked me If I would reply to the criticism. I told him I certainly would. 11s asked me It I would not re ply through The Journal, as,-In that way. the people who read the critlclem would read my answer. I said poet lively, “No.” I will not humiliate my self again, by writing any more com- celved a letter from Governor Northon In which he aaya he te discussing noth- Ing upon earth but assaults upon wom. en by negro brutes and the burning and lynching of negroes by brute white men. I am asking the people to study the question and tall us how wa can prevent both.” These word* ar* embodied In the el. Itorlal In question, and, yet, he rites up. In the presence of th* fair women of our state and In the presence of our decadent clvllliatlon. to say that 1 must quit this great work because I am about to give back to the negro hie vote. Can the people of Georgia, brave and chivalrous men as they are, look thla condition of things squarely In the face and not grow hot with Indignation and wrath at such an expression? He knows, and all my friends know, that 1 am wearing tha end of my life away, and that It Is speedily going, while I stand out In the open and con spicuous for the protection of our women against villainous assadlts. while this man writes a two-column editorial calling me oft so that a ne gro may not have tha chance to vote. Away! away! away! with such miser able rot and such contemptible utter- ancea “Upon what meat hatji this our Cae. sar fed that he has grown so great r' Is It possible that no man In Georgia can open hte mouth In denunciation of matters that threaten us with Infamy and outrage, except by hte consent anil under hte order? Now, hear the Infamous attack hs has openly made against me person ally. After a struggle, a hard struggle of more than seventy yean, to make my life, by the grace of God. pure and sim ple and good, he haa the Impudence is present me to the public aa a villain, nigh akin to the devil himself. Hear him: “It th* governor making a can vass In Oeergla *> hit own stikuwhi . using hit own private meads-far tear munlcatlons to the editor-of The Jour nal. I asked him If he was going to re port my speech to The Journal. He said that was hla purpose. 1 said, course you will report me correctly.” He replied, "Moot certainly." t then said to Mr. Cobb: 'The Journal not publish your report. Thla I know, because other correspondents at other places have made such reports and these reports have not appeared In The Journal." So much for thla Interview. I have a letter from ex-Oovemor Mc Daniel. It reads aa fallows: "It Is un necessary for me to assure you of my thorough sympathy In your effort to nrnuae the people lo the dangers of all forms of lawlessness, particularly the excesses of mobs and to direct their attention to the better enforcement of the criminal laws of the state, by or derly procedure of the courts. You are engaged In a great work and I wish you abundant aucceee; Indeed, t am sure you will accomplish much good.” 1 have a similar let»»r from Major . C. C. Black, of Augusta I have a mom beautiful letter from'Dr. Theron H. Rice, one of the bast men that ever walked the earth. I have tetters from people outside of our mate, and, better then all there letters, I have the spoken bleeetngs and the pmyers of the women of Georgia. 1 A splendid woman who keeps the beautiful hotel at Prestpn, rut my bill more than half because she said, as 1 paid It. you are doing good work for the women of the state. Mrs. Lovett, the splendid little wom an who keeps the hotel st Wrtghtevllle, did everything ehe knew to make me comfortable and got up before day her self to cook my breakfast, so that' 1 could slnrt, In the rain, a long Journey of twenty-elghl mile* across the coun try from Wrtghtevllle tn Bwalneboro. to speak for the women of the elate, and when I naked her for my bill, ehe said you do not owe me one cent. Oh, men of Georgia, listen to the appeal of the women of the state, while you despise, absolutely despise, the effort of the edi tor of The Journal tn call me down. In their magnificent presence, to that he can keep a negro from voting. 1 might tell you much more on this line, but I Mrbenr, In gratitude on the one tide and imsltlve disgust on the other. Now. let me say :n the public: Hoke Smith and t'lark Howell fully under stand my position In the recent state campaign. They know thnt no living man has ever heard me express myself on the questions at Issue then. Hoke Smith and ('lark Howell, for many years, have both been my strong per sonal aqd political friends. 1 honor and love, them both. Let It be dis tinctly understood 1 did not tak* posi tion on any question discussed in the rnmpslgn. 1 was out of tha state tho day of voiing. I would not have voted If I had been In Georgia Th# truth Is I was Indifferent to this special Issue. I wrote letters to Mr. Smith and Mr. Howell after th* campaign. There gentlemen-both know esactly-where I aland am! so does the editor of The Atlanta Journal. He ran see nothing in the purity of the women of the state bigger than a negro’s vote. I have no concern whatever os lo the result of ths Issues of that cumpaign on the lln* the editor of The Journal Is now dis cussing. I do not cars a fig one wgy or the other The editor of The Journal haa ac tually quoted ine In lie editorial III question, distinctly defining whet I am doing. Jit quotes as follows* “W* have re purpose. or Is It a fund furnished by somebody who would reverse the will -4- the people by defeating disfranchise ment?" Tbla contemptible Insinuation I de spise with all th* strength of my soul, as I despite the spirit and the man who made It. When did It ever become thebusl- ness or the right of this man to Inquire where I get my money, unless he think* I steal It? How dare he openly and Impudently present me to the people a* the hired tool of "somebody” to do dirty work, a* he thinks, for p*y! Now let me answer him. I have not charged one cent «f my expenses to the commit tee I have the honor to represent. Thle they know. I have not asked any man to give me one dollar to pay my trav eling expenses or my hotel bills. On* man, who lives outside th* state, and who Is Interested In suppressing os- saults and suppressing mob, offered to give me money to help In tb* work I am doing. This I declined. Later on he eent me 3100 and naked to bn al lowed to help. This I then allowed him to do. Yea you man of The Journal. I am paying my own expenses. Hoke Smith can tell you about what such * campaign coats. I have now gone as far, on my own account, aa I ought to go, In Juttlre to my family. I am ready to rerelve money from any man who want* to help, whits man or negro, except the editor of Ths Atlanta Journal, to carry, throughout the state, the work that 1 have under taken. and to which I have contemned my life, my service, and, If necessary, my blood. _ . „ If no man Will help me. then I shall lean upon God and go again umll I have traversed th* otet*. at my own expense, speaking for the women ot Georgia and for our civilisation that I* fast going Into decay. Now, let me say once more to the editor of The Journal and, through you, to the people of the state, while 1 do not care the flip of my Anger as to what th# legislature wlU do about the disfranchisement of the negro. If tno editor of The Journal wants to make the Issue between the disfranchisement of the negro and the protection ot women from outrage and criminal as sault and treeing the elate from ih* savagery of moba, let him say sr lit 11) • BIIU A Will Hh!* 1 , . . t ...at part of the state through which I have now traveled and complete the state In other poiflon* and blast w" and hla paper with Infamy blacker than night. Now, let him come nut and say so. and an outraged peoplo will rise up and crush The Journal Into eternal forgetfulness. I am not at all Interfering with his Issue, and he must hot lt-erferr sli» mine. This great etate ha* not >« been subjected to one man power, ana God forbid It-should ever be subjected to the editor of The Atlanta Journal. Let me again Impress It. I have got nothing to do with his disfranchise ment, nor htv* I had. I challenge hit statement and bring for proof the ecore* and hundred* of men who ha«s heard me at th* different places si which I have spoken. Thle matter Is now "a closed Issue between me and The Journal. 1 have written by thle mall. a»ki"* that tbe paper be stopped and kept oa> of my home. t __ No paper ehall be read by the w-nnw" of my family which makes the sirtjj of a pure woman subject to any l- “ that engages the attention of an am bltlous politician, who hopes some a»y to ride Into power over those psople Georgia who engaga In and favor m-h_- No paper shall coma Into my home inti would rather see our civilisation dr‘*J than murderous mob* denounced ana the editor loe* votes thereby. , 1 know The Journal te a gr*»< »"? powerful paper. With all the muliuud* of Its subscribers shouting hu,ta ' „„ Its editor, h* can crush me !o u '“ n . and grind me to powder, but. God hem Ing me. I will go down under W* gm* and powerful - influence .before 1 £ _ kl* and band a knee to his i”“ ,r truck! to destroy. Now bring out you? doge or " ■ and hi* tham on. I don't car# what think nor what you nay, while » upon God aad hear th# peopl" unanimously, aa He moves them i; - trrance. I am speaking n rtehj'" f effort to recover the rtvlllna**" n which our patriotic dead so glad!) * iheir live*, tbslr treasure-A" ' ;" blood. Why *«•!<“ no* jjjj* Malax boro. Ga, March 13.